- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:51:11 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 3:42p +0000 10/29/96, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > What's NATURALSIZEFLAG supposed to _do_, anyway?
>
> I'm not positive, but I think it is a marker for the editor to
> indicate whether the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes are the "NATURALSIZE"
> of the image or whether the author is using them to scale the image.
>
>Interesting idea. But if the natural size is required, why bother to
>give the dimensions at all?
Same reason Navigator benefits from explicit dimensions: speed.
>And what if I want the image distorted by making it wider than natural
>but keeping the same height?
Although I don't have PageMill, I seem to recall once seeing a value of
"3" for NATURALSIZEFLAG. Which I now figure probably means that it really
should be FLAG*S* -- plural, flags summed. Just a guess...
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Received on Wednesday, 30 October 1996 01:08:46 UTC